Unfortunately, RVs line the curb along Oak and Fell streets next to Golden Gate Park and along Great Highway, and in the Bayview a group has set up an outdoor couch, coffee table and TV viewing area.

Finding a park for motor home owners might be a good idea - some city staffers have floated the idea of a test location on Treasure Island - but after Tuesday's final vote at the Board of Supervisors it will no longer be legal to live in an RV on the street between midnight and 6 a.m. in designated areas.

Supervisor Carmen Chu, who sponsored the bill with Supervisor Malia Cohen, says the issues are scarce parking and illegal storage of recreational vehicles. But she knows that the most controversial part of the legislation means people who live in RVs must find another solution.

"Traditionally, vehicularly housed individuals have been very difficult to get into city services," she said. "We are hoping that this will get these people to them."

Looking back on it, doorman Robert Boutacoff wonders if it was the smartest idea to grab an armed man and hold him for the police.

But the owners of cars parked along Sacramento Street are glad he did.

Boutacoff says that one day a resident told him every car from Embarcadero to Powell had a flat tire.

Boutacoff, who works at a building on Powell, checked footage from his security camera and saw the slasher, merrily ripping tires. The problem was that this had happened at 2 a.m., when no one was on duty.

Three days later Boutacoff was watching his security camera during the day when a familiar figure in a blue baseball cap and parka came strolling into the frame.

"Right before my eyes he bent down and punctured a tire," Boutacoff said.

Boutacoff, who is 59, jumped up, grabbed the man's arm and told him he was making a citizen's arrest.

Luckily the man provided little resistance. But because he was carrying a box cutter and was at least 20 years younger, it was a pretty gutsy move.

In February he was walking along Noe Street in the Castro when he noticed a young man talking to two Japanese women who clearly did not speak English.

Ferran got some lunch, and on the way back he saw the two women, in tears, trying to give a statement to the police. The man had robbed them at knifepoint.

That's when Ferran remembered the suspect had been eating a bag of chips. Since it was recycling day and the blue bins were out, he went to the original scene and found the bag in a bin. He carefully picked it up, put it in a baggie, and brought it to the police station.

Last week the police called to say they'd run a DNA test and identified the suspect.